So yesterday I went to Stratford, got soaking wet in a terrible rainstorm and saw a PLAY.

I'm not sure if 500 years is enough time, so there are spoilers ahead for William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. It is a tragedy, though, so you can probably guess what happens ( Read more... )

Things That Are Awesome:

• Getting homemade brownies in the post. THIS ROCKS. And they're delicious.
  
• Dollhouse getting a second season. I know this is now old news in the land of the internet, but I'm still ridiculously happy about it for all the reasons I previously stated in my Omega Reaction Post.
   
• I poached eggs today for the first time EVER. And ( Read more... )

I'm back in Newcastle and will probably have to unpack at some point. We came by a scenic route today, and I realised I was not quite as over my fear of heights as I had thought. It doesn't help that my dad thinks the steering in the car is about to fail, so I spent every mile wondering whether we'd be crashing into a brick wall, the central ( Read more... )

I went and got my Extended Study sorted out today, by visiting the woman who would have led the Cyberpunk module if she hadn't had a baby. Turns out she's awesome. When I said I wanted to write on Battlestar Galactica she lit right up, and we spent a good ten minutes talking about the latest series and then testing out some ideas about gender and ( Read more... )

SAM TROUGHTON IN SHAKESPEARE!

He's playing Marcus Brutus in Julius Caesar (and if I'm remembering that play right, that's the main character.  Right?) And Third Gentleman in The Winter's Tale, which is slightly less awesome, but the play itself sounds brilliant, so I'm okay with it :P

MY POINT IT that Sam Troughton is DOING SOMETHING and we should ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm back with more Sam Troughton-related squee and miscellaneous theatre-stuff. And my university "analysis" after that, hehe.

Sorry for the delay on this, folks, I just needed to get myself sorted :P The quotes are not 100% accurate... most of them were written down in my little notebook when I got back to the hotel, but some will have been ( Read more... )

I am returned from Sheffield, and the university has just been bumped up from bottom of the pile to third in line. If Durham don't respond positively, it will most likely be my second choice. The English Department was just brilliant. But that's not why I'm posting today...

You may remember my small explosion of squee a while ago when I learned I ( Read more... )